All Films

Accident

1998 • 20 min

Mourning. Funerals. The origins of culture are built on farewells. Burial mounds, tombs, mausoleums and pyramids were filled with objects that belonged to the departed. Bandaged, mummified, they were buried alongside their owners since they were extensions of their hands, legs and bodies. An eighteen day vigil in the Modern Art Gallery of Majewski’s native town of Katowice was an attempt to pay a simple homage to a young woman who died in a car accident. It evolved into a mysterious ritual connected to the myth of the fountain of life-giving blood, an archetype of female cyclicality. Reminiscent of priestesses from Böcklin paintings, silhouettes in lucid gowns moved in a slow motion making the audience participate in a ceremony that felt like an ancient funeral, creating a symbolic mausoleum at the Gallery.

Ganbare Goemon: Global Rescue Operation

1998 • 30 min • Japan

The second OVA of the Ganbare Goemon series.

How to Become an American Transgender Theorist (A Recipe)

1998 • 8 min • Canada

A short video satirizing queer theorists' Instrumentalization and abstraction of trans people in the 1990s.

12 September: Back to Democracy

1998 • 47 min • Turkey

Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing would ever be the same again, nothing would be the same as before.

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger

1998 • 56 min

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by Jesper Wachtmeister. It consists of an interview by the journalist Björn Cederberg with the German writer, philosopher and war veteran Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). Jünger talks about his life, his authorship, his interests and ideas. The actor Mikael Persbrandt reads passages from some of Jünger's works, such as Storm of Steel, The Worker, On the Marble Cliffs and The Glass Bees.

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

1998 • 59 min • Portugal

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Magic User's Club! vs. Shamanic Princess

1998 • 7 min • Japan

A parody-esque epilogue to both Shamanic Princess and Mahou Tsukai Tai!. As a marketing ploy back when Shamanic Princess was first released, buyers who purchased all six first edition LD's of both Shamanic Princess and Magic User's Club, and sent in their proof of purchases before a deadline received a special OVA entitled Shamanic Princess vs. Magic User's Club. It was never sold in stores and was a special omake by the series' creators to the fans. The OVA contains an epilogue to both series, which is fitting considering they both came out at the same time.

Black Metal

1998 • 49 min • Belgium

An overview of black metal culture in Belgian youth.

The Wiggles Live At Disneyland

1998 • 45 min

Catch Australia's favourite children's group wiggle with excitement as they perform at the place where dreams really do come true....Disneyland. The Wiggles decided to venture to the most magical place on earth, Disneyland with their Disney Channel suitcases in hand and wiggly moves on the ready, it's going to be a giggling good time for everyone.

Rayman's Training

1998 • 1 min

Rayman fights with an anthropomorphic punching bag.

Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998 • 11 min

Behind the scenes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Ronnie Coleman: The First Training Video

1998 • 60 min

Ronnie Coleman, the 8-time Mr. Olympia, comes from Texas and he's as huge as the state! Witness the most phenomenal physique ever to possess the coveted Sandow trophy. The DVD includes Ronnie's lifestyle as full time police officer, so you get to ride along with him "COPS" style. This video shows you not only his whole workout and contest conditioning, but also his lifestyle, diet, contests and much more. Taped right after the Mr. Olympia 1997 competition. The DVD also features Posing Practice with Diana Dennis.

Critical Condition: Comedy

1998 • 30 min

Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia

1998 • 10 min • Italy

The video is inspired by Teicologia, by Antonio Pizzuto, one of the most important and significant authors of contemporary Italian literature. The video re-proposes Palermo through "a study of the walls" in a dimension that is not dictated by the reasoned discourse of hard news, but by a "signal beyond" fluctuating in matter that is neither reinterpreted nor brought back into the light. "My aim was to make the work of this great Sicilian literary man more well-known by means of a work made from languages that are contemporary for us and for him. Further, I aim to continue the perceptive work on Palermo that was started with Palermo, In sospensione, In sospensione (su Palermo), and La cena informale (Salvo Cuccia).

Nalen

1998 • 60 min • Sweden

Documentary about legendary Swedish jazz club "Nalen" featuring interviews with old musicians and singers, and old clips from the place in its glory days

The Cock Crew

1998 • 5 min

The scene is a small paper-producing factory presided over by the shiftless Ari and his long-suffering wife Taryn. Employees include Sybill and Windy, pale young women who toil endlessly at the pulp vats, and the more mature Helen, who is past breeding age. As Ari sits astride his beloved chimney, a Care-Giving Woman appears and offers a rooster to Taryn. The crows of this beast cause ecstatic, erotic disquietude in anyone within ear-shot. The cottage becomes a tropical whirlwind of desire until Helen manages to drown the rooster in the bubbling pulp.

No Neck Joe in: Tennis Anyone?

1998 • 1 min • United States of America

Joe and his friends are watching Playing Tennis.

Pablo Escobar: King of Cocaine

1998 • 60 min

Incorporating never before-seen archival footage, home movies and interviews with family members, journalists and law enforcement officials, PABLO ESCOBAR: KING OF COCAINE tells the story of the twisted Robin Hood who founded the Medellin cartel cocaine smuggling organization and became the first billionaire criminal in South America. This piece is part of The Learning Channel series "Legends," hosted by Bryant Gumbel.

Peppermills

1998 • 14 min • Switzerland, United States of America

The theft of her 257 treasured peppermills leads a woman to reminisce about her past encounters.

Bread Day

1998 • 55 min • Russia

Depicts a community of pensioners living in near isolation outside of St. Petersberg as it enacts the weekly ritual of bringing a delivery of bread—left at a rail junction two hours away—into the village for distribution.

Frank the Wrabbit

1998 • 9 min • Canada

In this animated short, Frank proves he’s no ordinary rabbit. He's a highly intelligent "wrabbit" with a philosophical world view that affords him great comfort. Unfortunately, his outlook is challenged when the farmer's carrots disappear.

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution

1998 • 57 min • Spain

A documentary about the Spanish anarchist.

Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever

1998 • 24 min

Roxanne is a dog who wants a great Christmas tree. She can't find it. What will she do? Have the best Christmas ever! That's what!

In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross

1998 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A look at Tarzan on the big and small screen with interviews with some of those who have played him.